PowerShell Job Trends in Edinburgh

Windows PowerShell
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring PowerShell skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 80 81
Rank change year-on-year +55 +1 +4
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 97 20 29
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 8.21% 1.85% 2.43%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.68% 4.36% 5.27%
Number of salaries quoted 24 11 25
10th Percentile £37,000 - £44,615
25th Percentile £48,156 £42,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,750 £75,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +6.33% +6.27% +22.08%
75th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £85,000
90th Percentile - - £91,923
Scotland median annual salary £71,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +19.17% +9.09% -3.51%

All Programming Languages
Edinburgh

PowerShell falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 469 459 550
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 39.71% 42.46% 46.14%
Number of salaries quoted 193 255 440
10th Percentile £28,250 £39,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £50,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £78,312 £78,535 £75,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £97,084 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,148
% change year-on-year +4.55% -0.27% -7.35%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PowerShell relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

PowerShell job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

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Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing PowerShell.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing PowerShell

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Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 19 February 2026.

Salary histogram for PowerShell in Edinburgh

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Job Locations in Edinburgh

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PowerShell within the Edinburgh region over the 6 months to 19 February 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Balerno - 1 - -
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Scotland

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 9 (9.28%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (8.25%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.03%) CICS
3 1 (1.03%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (3.09%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (7.22%) Workday HCM
2 4 (4.12%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 75 (77.32%) Azure
2 35 (36.08%) Azure DevOps
3 33 (34.02%) Microsoft 365
4 29 (29.90%) Entra ID
5 27 (27.84%) dbt
5 27 (27.84%) Snowflake
6 19 (19.59%) Azure Key Vault
7 16 (16.49%) Azure Data Factory
8 13 (13.40%) GitHub
9 10 (10.31%) GitHub Actions
10 9 (9.28%) Azure Monitor
11 8 (8.25%) Azure Logic Apps
11 8 (8.25%) SaaS
12 7 (7.22%) Boomi
12 7 (7.22%) Microsoft Purview
12 7 (7.22%) Mimecast
13 4 (4.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 4 (4.12%) AWS
13 4 (4.12%) GCP
14 3 (3.09%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.25%) Telnet
2 7 (7.22%) Firewall
3 4 (4.12%) BGP
3 4 (4.12%) LAN
3 4 (4.12%) MPLS
3 4 (4.12%) WAN
3 4 (4.12%) Wireless
4 3 (3.09%) DNS
4 3 (3.09%) Software-Defined Networking
4 3 (3.09%) VPN
5 2 (2.06%) Broadband
6 1 (1.03%) Unified Communications
6 1 (1.03%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (16.49%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.03%) DB2
2 1 (1.03%) Power BI
2 1 (1.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 19 (19.59%) JIRA
2 10 (10.31%) Jenkins
General
1 79 (81.44%) Finance
2 15 (15.46%) Social Skills
3 13 (13.40%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (8.25%) Front Office
5 2 (2.06%) Games
5 2 (2.06%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (31.96%) Senior
2 22 (22.68%) Azure Engineer
3 14 (14.43%) Applications Engineer
4 10 (10.31%) Security Engineer
5 8 (8.25%) Platform Specialist
6 7 (7.22%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
7 6 (6.19%) 3rd Line Support
8 5 (5.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (4.12%) Applications Support
9 4 (4.12%) Applications Support Engineer
9 4 (4.12%) Data Engineer
9 4 (4.12%) Platform Engineer
9 4 (4.12%) Support Engineer
10 3 (3.09%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 3 (3.09%) Cloud Engineer
10 3 (3.09%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 3 (3.09%) Lead
10 3 (3.09%) Network Engineer
10 3 (3.09%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 3 (3.09%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (13.40%) GraphQL
1 13 (13.40%) OAuth
2 11 (11.34%) OpenAPI
2 11 (11.34%) Swagger
3 9 (9.28%) REST
3 9 (9.28%) SAML
3 9 (9.28%) SOAP
4 8 (8.25%) FIX Protocol
4 8 (8.25%) YAML
5 7 (7.22%) Web Services
6 2 (2.06%) LDAP
6 2 (2.06%) OpenID
7 1 (1.03%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 35 (36.08%) Product Ownership
2 8 (8.25%) Equities
2 8 (8.25%) Fixed Income
2 8 (8.25%) Security Posture
3 5 (5.15%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (4.12%) Cloud Native
4 4 (4.12%) Data Centre
4 4 (4.12%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.06%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (2.06%) Cyberattack
5 2 (2.06%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.06%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.06%) Robotics
5 2 (2.06%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (1.03%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 1 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.03%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.03%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 29 (29.90%) Windows
2 15 (15.46%) Windows Server
3 3 (3.09%) Linux
3 3 (3.09%) VMS
4 2 (2.06%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.03%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (72.16%) Asset Management
2 68 (70.10%) Coaching
3 58 (59.79%) Agile
4 52 (53.61%) DevOps
5 50 (51.55%) Roadmaps
6 40 (41.24%) ITIL
7 38 (39.18%) Infrastructure as Code
8 36 (37.11%) CI/CD
9 31 (31.96%) Continuous Improvement
10 28 (28.87%) Problem-Solving
11 27 (27.84%) AI
12 26 (26.80%) Mentoring
13 24 (24.74%) Analytics
14 23 (23.71%) FinOps
14 23 (23.71%) Machine Learning
14 23 (23.71%) Technology Roadmap
15 16 (16.49%) Information Security
16 12 (12.37%) Cybersecurity
16 12 (12.37%) Data Modelling
16 12 (12.37%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 55 (56.70%) Python
2 39 (40.21%) SQL
3 28 (28.87%) Bash
4 12 (12.37%) C#
5 7 (7.22%) JavaScript
6 3 (3.09%) Bicep
7 2 (2.06%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (10.31%) CISSP
1 10 (10.31%) CREST Certified
1 10 (10.31%) SANS
2 3 (3.09%) Degree
3 2 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (2.06%) CCNA
3 2 (2.06%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (2.06%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.06%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.03%) CEH
4 1 (1.03%) GIAC
4 1 (1.03%) GREM
4 1 (1.03%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (22.68%) Accessibility
2 9 (9.28%) GDPR
3 2 (2.06%) NCSC
3 2 (2.06%) NIST
4 1 (1.03%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 16 (16.49%) Virtual Desktop
2 15 (15.46%) Active Directory
3 9 (9.28%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (3.09%) Docker
5 1 (1.03%) RACF
Systems Management
1 47 (48.45%) Terraform
2 18 (18.56%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (7.22%) Ansible
3 7 (7.22%) SCCM
3 7 (7.22%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (5.15%) Grafana
5 4 (4.12%) Prometheus
6 3 (3.09%) Kubernetes
7 1 (1.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.03%) Computer Incident Response Team
7 1 (1.03%) Forefront Identity Manager
7 1 (1.03%) QRadar
Vendors
1 52 (53.61%) Microsoft
2 13 (13.40%) ServiceNow
3 8 (8.25%) Charles River
3 8 (8.25%) Cisco
4 7 (7.22%) MuleSoft
4 7 (7.22%) Workday
5 6 (6.19%) Splunk
6 5 (5.15%) IBM
7 4 (4.12%) Ab Initio
7 4 (4.12%) F5
7 4 (4.12%) Fortinet
7 4 (4.12%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.03%) Broadcom
8 1 (1.03%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (1.03%) Proofpoint